RE: New Mass Effect announced!
June 17, 2015 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2015 at 1:30 pm by Napoléon.)
(June 17, 2015 at 1:20 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: So I've never played any of the Mass Effect series, but I see that ME/ME2 are bundled on Steam at a very attractive price. Still worth getting? This is a first-person RPG along the lines of TES / Fallout 3 but set in a futuristic universe, yes?
Worth getting? Absolutely.
Along the lines of TES / Fallout? Not quite.
I love all games like this but I wouldn't describe ME as along the lines of TES or Fallout. I don't know if you've played any Bioware games before, but if you have you generally know what to expect.
There's certainly aspects they have in common to be sure, both have a huge emphasis on dialogue and questing for example, but ME is a lot more realistic in the dialogue department, and the story is a lot more involved than what it is in Fallout or TES. In TES or Fallout, you're sort of taken for the ride, and you can hop in and out of the car at your leisure to do your own thing. With ME, you're in the driver's seat, but you can only really make a few pitstops. Also, Bioware games on the whole tend to be a little less 'open world'. As in, you don't normally get a huge map to explore, but instead a large variety of different areas.
Oh and it's 3rd person, not first. Probably the biggest difference between them.
I look at it like this, Bethesda games tend to be sprawling sand box worlds where you can essentially create your own story, and do your own thing for the most part. Bioware games tend to be a lot more focused, put you in the role of the hero and give you the choice of how you want to interact directly with the story.
The thing that makes me love Bioware a hell of a lot more than Bethesda, is consequence. You know how you do all those quests in Fallout, or TES, and by the end of it all the world is still essentially the same? Not so in a Bioware game, at least not in my opinion. They do their utmost to make you feel in control of the main character, and the relationships you have with the other characters in-game are a league above anything in a Bethesda game.
